Episode 203: MPC and DAGs with Aleph Zero's Adam Gagol & Matthew Niemerg

Zero Knowledge

This week, Anna speaks with Adam Gągol and Matthew Niemerg about Aleph Zero - an L1 project mixing ZKPs and MPCs with a DAG consensus algorithm. The aim of their project is to enable private smart contracts. In the conversation, they explore the underlying DAG structure and their privacy solutions that leverage zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC).

Here are some links for this episode:

• Paper - Aleph: Efficient Atomic Broadcast in Asynchronous Networks with Byzantine Nodes
• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System by Leslie Lamport
• Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev

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